A Painted House
by:
John Grisham (author)
John Grisham our author becomes the storyteller in true fashion. This book centers around the rural farmland in Arkansas in 1952. All the normal comings and goings accelerate in front of our young boy Luke Chandler. From a brutal murder, to a fatherless baby being born, to a beautiful long...
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John Grisham our author becomes the storyteller in true fashion. This book centers around the rural farmland in Arkansas in 1952. All the normal comings and goings accelerate in front of our young boy Luke Chandler. From a brutal murder, to a fatherless baby being born, to a beautiful long woman igniting forbidden passions, the story grows and draws the reader captive.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780440295983 (044029598X)
Publish date: December 26th 2001
Publisher: Dell
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
This is about the ins and outs of life on a farm near a small town from the perspective of a 7 year old boy. I thought it was very interesting. It shows the struggles of just surviving, the good and bad in life. It almost seems like a nonfiction retelling. Although the boy is only 7, it also see...
Painted House by John GrishamStory about a house that's never been painted. Lots of colorful characters, 1952 with lots of baseball talk.Mexicans and hill people come to aid in picking the crops. About the author's real childhood experiences in the cotton field.80 acres rented planted with cotton. N...
No Lawyers and no litigation, not a typical John Grisham book. The story has a distinct feel of a John Steinbeck episode to the extent that some of the characters and their experiences could be related to Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden. In the beginning I was not sure where the story was going, at...
An interesting read about a few months in the life of poor cotton farmers in Arkanasas. More slice of life rather than the usual thriller from Grisham.
This is quite different from the usual Grisham's legal thrillers. There are the crimes, of course, and the thrilling aspect side of things but the legal factor is missing. More prominently, the story is told from a 7 year old boy.I think Grisham has done well with this perspective. There were mom...
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